单词 | peanut |
释义 | peanutn.adj. A. n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > other nuts walnut1553 sisyrinchium1629 Indian almond1685 breadnut?1740 peanut1794 sapucaia-nut1820 musk1827 breadnut1828 singhara1834 musk tree1835 wild chestnut1854 urucuri1860 nut palm1889 peanut1904 1794 H. Wansey Jrnl. 3 July in Jrnl. Excursion to U.S. (1796) 250 I brought from the United States with me..Of nuts, hiccory and chinquopin, or pea nuts. The latter..is very common in China, as a native Chinese told me, when dining at my house..some of those nuts being on table. b. Originally U.S. The fruit or pod of the plant Arachis hypogaea (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), which becomes buried beneath the soil as it ripens; the edible oval seed it contains, which is often roasted. Also: the plant itself, a native of Brazil widely grown in tropical regions. Also called groundnut, monkey nut.The peanut is strictly not a nut in botanical terms: see note s.v. nut n.1 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > peanut mani1604 pindar1684 earthnut1714 groundnut1740 ground-pea1796 peanut1802 goober1833 monkey nut1880 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > nut > [noun] > peanut groundnut1740 peanut1802 monkey nut1880 1802 W. Irving Lett. Jonathan Oldstyle in Morning Chron. (N.Y.) 1 Dec. 2/5 I amused myself with eating pea-nuts. 1807 Salmagundi 27 June 240 Young seniors go down to the flag-staff to buy peanuts, and beer. 1834 C. F. Hoffman Let. 17 Apr. in Winter in West (1835) II. 206 Wrenching it from its roots as a Lilliputian would a peanut! 1886 A. H. Church Food-grains of India 127 Half the weight of pea-nuts is oil. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XII. 625/1 In America they are consumed in large quantity as the ‘pea-nut’; but are not much appreciated in England except by the poorer children, who know them as ‘monkey-nuts’. 1937 A. F. Hill Econ. Bot. xvi. 358 The peanut is a native of Brazil but was early carried to the Old World tropics by the Portuguese explorers. It was brought to Virginia from Africa by the slaves and is now one of the most important crops of the south. 1967 N. Freeling Strike Out 96 His wife was..reading Proust and eating peanuts. 1979 W. Styron Sophie's Choice xvi. 490 Peanuts have to have a lot of sunshine and a long frost-free growing period. 2003 Black Men Oct. 98 Also includes a lower shelving area for storing chips, peanuts or any of your favorite snacks. c. Chiefly with distinguishing word: any of certain other plants whose fruit matures on or under the surface of the ground, spec. the Bambara groundnut, Vigna (Voandzeia) subterranea; the fruit of these plants.hog-peanut: see hog n.1 Compounds 2e. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > other nuts walnut1553 sisyrinchium1629 Indian almond1685 breadnut?1740 peanut1794 sapucaia-nut1820 musk1827 breadnut1828 singhara1834 musk tree1835 wild chestnut1854 urucuri1860 nut palm1889 peanut1904 1904 N.E.D. Peanut,..Also applied to allied plants of similar character (or their fruit), as Voandzeia subterranea of Madagascar, Africa, and S. America, and Amphicarpæa monoica of N. America. 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Peanut, the Bambara groundnut. 1980 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 21 96 Voandzeia [subterranea]..is possibly indigenous to West Africa, where it is commonly known as the earthnut or, because of its widespread distribution in the Upper Niger basin, the Bambara peanut. 2. colloquial (originally U.S.). a. A small, unintelligent, or unimportant person (see also quots. 1945, 1968). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant unknownc1390 pawnc1450 semi-cipher?1550 bauble1570 Jack with the feather1581 nobody1583 winterling1585 squash1600 rush candle1628 niflec1635 nullity1657 nonentity1710 featherweight1812 underscrub1822 nyaff1825 small fish1836 no-account1840 little fish1846 peanut1864 commonplacer1874 sparrow-fart1886 Little Willie1901 pipsqueak1905 nebbish1907 pie-biter1911 blob1916 smallie1930 no-count1932 zilch1933 Mickey Mouse1935 muzhik1945 nerd1951 nothingburger1953 nerk1955 non-person1959 no-mark1982 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > simpleton innocentc1386 greenhead1576 gonyc1580 ninnyhammer1592 chicken1600 loach1605 simplician1605 hichcock1607 smelt1607 foppasty1611 dovea1616 goslinga1616 funge1621 simplicity1633 gewgaw1634 squab1640 simpletonian1652 ninny-whoop1653 softhead1654 foppotee1663 greenhorn1672 sumph1682 sawney1699 sillyton1708 gaby?1746 gobbin?1746 green goose1768 nin-a-kin1787 Jacob1811 green1824 sillikin1832 greeny1834 softhorn1836 sucker1838 softie1850 dope1851 soft1854 verigreen1854 peanut1864 daftie1872 josser1886 naïf1891 yapc1894 barm-stick1924 knobhead1931 sook1933 nig-nog1953 sawn1953 pronk1959 stiffy1965 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing > typical examples of little fingerc1300 pear1340 hair1377 flea1388 a pin's head (also point)c1450 fitch1550 mouse1584 minnow1596 the pestle of a lark1598 nutshella1616 pinhead1662 pinpoint1670 rope yarn1751 bee's knee1797 peanut1864 postage stamp1881 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > one outside conventional society beard1667 come-outer1840 pagan1841 Bohemian1843 Greenwich Villager1887 weirdie1894 outsider1907 white nigger1934 beardo1935 isolate1942 weirdo1955 beat1958 beatnik1958 boho1958 beatster1959 way out1959 hippie1966 rebetis1966 homeboy1967 peanut1968 Yippie1968 suedehead1970 Goth1986 grebo1987 hipster1989 1864 ‘M. Twain’ in N.Y. Sunday Mercury 21 Feb. 3/4 I am no peanut... I could invent some little remedies that would stir up a commotion,..if I chose to try. 1871 F. Remington Let. 9 Mar. (1988) 9 They are no little ‘pea nuts’ but regular ‘square-toed’ veterans. 1923 E. Paul Impromptu 265 Such a peanut, to run a press. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. viii. 157 Peanut, a simple-minded soldier. 1963 Australasian Post (Melbourne) 14 Mar. 51/1 ‘And what’, I asked cheerfully, ‘was this peanut's particular whinge?’ 1968 Daily Mail 16 Mar. 6/4 Mods are the traditional enemies of Rockers, but there were no Mods that night... ‘They're scared of us... We call them peanuts.’ 1995 Sydney Morning Herald 23 Aug. 29 (cartoon caption) ‘Young Alec Dilbry has just been made our head office manager!’ ‘Manager! No! What has that peanut ever managed?’ b. In plural. A small or relatively insignificant sum of money, esp. when regarded as inadequate remuneration; (sometimes more generally) a small, trivial, or unimportant matter. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum parcelc1400 plack1530 dodkinc1555 triflec1595 denier1597 driblet1659 song1698 Flanders-fortune1699 pin money1702 doit1728 drab1828 picayune1838 sprat1883 shoestring1904 peanut1910 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial > types of venialc1380 nutshalea1393 nutshella1400 flea-biting1553 flea-bite1577 nothing1577 epitomea1593 quilicoma1644 ephemera1751 pinprick1853 bibelot1873 piffle1884 peanut1910 popcorn1964 trivia1968 factoid1982 1849 H. Melville Redburn viii. 60 Tom was a very honest treasurer, and never spent the Society's money for peanuts.] 1910 O. Johnson Varmint xi. 156 ‘That's a hard one!’ ‘Peanuts!’ ‘Let me think.’ 1930 J. Lait Put on Spot 208 Peanuts,..small money. 1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? viii. 176 They got you working for peanuts. 1959 J. Osborne World Paul Slickey ii. x. 87 There's a thousand pounds a week from record sales..it ain't peanuts. 1966 L. Coulthard in Director Aug. 228/1 If you pay in peanuts, you must expect to get monkeys. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 29/2 All this is peanuts compared to the steady core of 3,600 ministers who make up the United Church clergy. 1973 Scotsman 13 Feb. 8/5 A salary of £3000 a year is peanuts for a man at the top of his profession. 2002 N.Y. Times 12 May iv. 5/2 Tax relief for those who need it least and the rest of the country gets peanuts. 3. Electronics. = peanut valve n. at Compounds 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > vacuum tube or thermionic valve vacuum tube1859 trigger tube1894 audion1906 pliotron1915 diode1919 electron tube1919 negatron1919 pentode1919 power valve1919 tetrode1919 triode valve1919 magnetron1921 bright emitter1923 peanut valve1923 peanut1924 power tube1924 multiple valve1929 thyratron1929 heptode1932 hexode1933 pentagrid1933 acorn tube1934 octode1934 triode-pentode1936 triode-hexode1937 transitron1939 trochotron1947 steering diode1957 1924 Wireless Weekly 8 Oct. 744/2 Seven valves (all ‘peanuts’), used successively as first detector, oscillator valve, three stages of intermediate frequency, second detector valve, and one stage of transformer-coupled note-magnification. 4. North American colloquial. A small piece of foam, of a type used in large quantities in packing containers to prevent damage to the objects within the containers during shipping or storage. Usually in plural. ΚΠ 1977 N.Y. Times 2 Jan. (New Jersey Weekly section) 2/1 A formidable box filled with foam peanuts that kept Kong from jouncing about. 1991 Garbage Jan. 74/1 (advt.) Innovative, new, low-density paper packaging... Environmentally responsive replacement for plastic wrap, foam and peanuts. 2002 M. Collier Starting eBay Business for Dummies xvii. 301 When packing with peanuts, be sure you place the item carefully and use enough peanuts to fill the box completely. B. adj. (attributive). colloquial (originally and chiefly North American). Insignificant, trivial, worthless; tiny, puny, undersized. See also peanut politician n., peanut politics n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless naughteOE unworthc960 nought worthOE unworthya1240 vaina1300 lewd1362 base?1510 to be nothing toc1520 stark naught1528 nothing worth1535 worthilessa1542 draffish1543 baggage1548 dunghill?1555 valureless1563 toyish1572 worthless1573 out (forth) of door (also doors)1574 leaden1577 riff-raff1577 drafty1582 fecklessc1586 dudgeon?1589 nought-worth1589 tenpenny1592 wanwordy?a1595 shotten herring1598 nugatory1603 unvalued1604 priceless1614 unvaluable1615 valuelessa1616 waste1616 trashya1620 draffy1624 stramineous1624 invaluable1640 roly-poly?1645 nugatorious1646 perquisquilian1647 niffling1649 lazy1671 wanworth1724 little wortha1754 flimsy1756 waff1788 null1790 nothingy1801 nothingly1802 twopenny-halfpenny1809 not worth a flaw1810 garbage1817 peanut1836 duffing1839 trash1843 no-account1845 no-count1851 punky1859 rummagy1872 junky1880 skilligalee1883 footle1894 punk1896 wherry-go-nimble1901 junk1908 rinky-dink1913 schlock1916 tripe1927 duff1938 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 expendable1942 (strictly) for the birds1943 tripey1955 schlocky1960 naff1964 dipshit1968 cack1978 1836 W. Dunlap Thirty Years Ago II. iii. 25 They were your pea-nut fellows, I suppose. 1854 Congress. Globe 19 May 1230/3 I know them—a set of peanut agitators and Peter Funk philanthropists. 1892 Congress. Rec. 18 June 5394/2 This country is not a peanut institution; it is a great country. 1910 G. B. McCutcheon Rose in Ring 203 I suppose that peanut aristocrat friend of yours has told you it ain't swell or proper to wear tights. 1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely xxxiii. 157 Hell, I thought he sold reefers. With the right protection behind him. But hell, that's a small-time racket. A peanut grift. 1990 Indian Express (Madras) 31 Jan. 7/2 More than 8,000 applicants are waiting for a phone connection under the Kodambakkam exchange area... Peanut additions made periodically will not clear the backlog. 1996 Loaded Sept. 198/1 Piss boys will be on call for jocks with peanut bladders. Compounds C1. a. peanut digger n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1644/1 Peanut-digger, a kind of plow with trailing branches, which raises from the soil the vines with the nuts attached, and leaves them strung upon the surface of the ground, to be afterward gathered and picked by hand or by machine. 1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 3 Aug. He..worked as a fisherman at Pialba,..a pineapple and banana picker at Nambour and a peanut digger at Kingaroy. peanut farmer n. ΚΠ 1891 N.Y. Times 8 June 4/6 Peanuts were worth 80 cents a bushel last Fall, but many of the peanut farmers held their crops in expectation of a rise. 1956 Times 1 Dec. 4 (advt.) New techniques bringing new plenty to the Virginian peanut-farmer. 2003 Daily Oklahoman (Okla. City) (Nexis) 1 Nov. 1 b The dry weather has been a blessing for peanut farmers in the Southwest. peanut farming n. ΚΠ 1908 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 29 Oct. 9/1 (headline) Widow successful at peanut farming. 1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) i. 84 Peanut farming keeps a number of factories busy, shelling, cleaning, and grading the nuts. 2000 S. Colatrella in C. B. Mwaria et al. Afr. Visions iv. 37 This crisis of peanut farming is directly responsible for the collective choice of migration by Mouride members. peanut oil n. ΚΠ 1864 Sci. Amer. 23 Jan. 56/1 Porpoise oil is used chiefly for clocks and small tools... Peanut oil is also used. 1912 A. H. Lewis Apaches N.Y. 132 He trimmed the peanut-oil lamp. 2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 282 I suggested peanut oil instead of canola, like we use in New York. peanut picker n. ΚΠ 1868 Sci. Amer. 23 Dec. 411/5 Peanut picker. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1644/1 Peanut-picker, a machine for separating pea nuts or the pods of leguminous plants from their vines. 1992 Canad. Living Aug. 30/1 Camiel Duwyn..operates the peanut picker, pulling the last rows of plants out of the light soil to reveal clusters of peanuts amid the roots. peanut sauce n. ΚΠ 1883 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 5 571 There were delicious fried bananas, pounded pea-nut sauce with roast chicken, ‘palm-oil chop’, and many other native dishes. 1955 G. W. Shepherd They wait in Darkness iii. 36 There was a chicken broth to begin with, then chicken, beef, and goat meat, with rice and matoke and peanut sauce. 2003 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Mar. 180/3 A previous trip to the ER came from a bad reaction to takeout food that had a trace of peanut sauce from another dish. peanut seller n. ΚΠ 1879 Daily Republican (Decatur, Illinois) 5 Dec. 2/2 The patrons of the obscure policy shops are shine-em-up boys, peanut sellers, apple women, hotel waiters, newsboys and others of similar classes. 1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird iii. 33 Peanut-sellers and newsvendors have free access to the front door. 2004 Indian Express (Nexis) 30 Jan. A peanut seller was reportedly thrown out of the Saharanpur-Moradabad train by some youths, following an altercation over the payment for peanuts. peanut shell n. ΚΠ 1852 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 5 Jan. 1/2 And now Old Time has cleared the Stage Of lemon-peel and peanut shells. a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) iii. 105 The floor..was littered from end to end with scattered grain—oats, wheat, corn, and barley, with wisps of hay, peanut shells, apple parings, and orange peel. 1996 J. McCormick & S. Fisher-Hoch Level 4: Virus Hunters of CDC xxv. 232 The envelope [of a virus]..can be pulled around during the process of preparing it so that it can be seen under the electron microscope, and stretched into many different shapes, including one that resembles a peanut shell. peanut vender n. ΚΠ 1854 N.-Y. Daily Times 5 Sept. 4/3 A railroad does something for a place more than by..furnishing to a crippled peanut-vender employment for his time. 1910 G. B. McCutcheon Rose in Ring 56 The lowliest peanut-vender was laughing in his sleeve at the sleuth. 1997 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 26 Jan. 1 b Vineyard representatives moved through the crowd..throwing packets of tissues to the audience like peanut venders. peanut vendor n. ΚΠ 1872 N.Y. Herald 20 Sept. 3/4 All kinds of visitors, from the élite of the neighboring districts down to the lager beer, candy and peanut vendors. 1978 S. Naipaul North of South ii. v. 209 The peanut vendor was guilty of waging capitalist war against socialist society. 1994 H. Holland Born in Soweto i. 19 Three bright braziers burn hectically on the roadside, in preparation for peanut vendors and those who will come to roast mealie cobs. b. peanut-brained adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] sloweOE stuntc960 dullOE hardOE stuntlyc1000 sotc1050 dillc1175 dulta1225 simplea1325 heavy1340 astonedc1374 sheepishc1380 dull-witteda1387 lourd1390 steerishc1411 ass-likea1425 brainless?a1439 deafc1440 sluggishc1450 short-witted1477 obtuse1509 peakish1519 wearish1519 deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520 doileda1522 gross1526 headlessa1530 stulty1532 ass-headed1533 pot-headed1533 stupid?1541 sheep's head1542 doltish1543 dumpish1545 assish1548 blockish1548 slow-witted1548 blockheaded1549 surd1551 dull-headed1552 hammer-headed1552 skit-brained?1553 buzzardly1561 witless1562 log-headeda1566 assy1566 sottish1566 dastardly1567 stupidious1567 beetle-headed1570 calvish1570 bluntish1578 cod's-headed1578 grout-headed1578 bedaft1579 dull-pated1580 blate1581 buzzard-like1581 long-eared1582 dullard1583 woodena1586 duncical1588 leaden-headed1589 buzzard1592 dorbellical1592 dunstical1592 heavy-headeda1593 shallow-brained1592 blunt-witted1594 mossy1597 Bœotian1598 clay-brained1598 fat1598 fat-witted1598 knotty-pated1598 stupidous1598 wit-lost1599 barren1600 duncifiedc1600 lourdish1600 stockish1600 thick1600 booby1603 leaden-pated1603 partless1603 thin-headed1603 leaden-skulledc1604 blockhead1606 frost-brained1606 ram-headed1608 beef-witted1609 insulse1609 leaden-spirited1609 asininec1610 clumse1611 blockheadly1612 wattle-headed1613 flata1616 logger-headeda1616 puppy-headeda1616 shallow-patedc1616 thick-brained1619 half-headed1621 buzzard-blinda1625 beef-brained1628 toom-headed1629 thick-witted1634 woollen-witted1635 squirrel-headed1637 clod-pated1639 lean-souled1639 muddy-headed1642 leaden-witteda1645 as sad as any mallet1645 under-headed1646 fat-headed1647 half-witted1647 insipid1651 insulsate1652 soft-headed1653 thick-skulleda1657 muddish1658 non-intelligent1659 whey-brained1660 sap-headed1665 timber-headed1666 leather-headeda1668 out of (one's) tree1669 boobily1673 thoughtless1673 lourdly1674 logger1675 unintelligenta1676 Bœotic1678 chicken-brained1678 under-witted1683 loggerhead1684 dunderheaded1692 unintelligible1694 buffle-headed1697 crassicc1700 numbskulled1707 crassous1708 doddy-polled1708 haggis-headed1715 niddy-noddy1722 muzzy1723 pudding-headed1726 sumphish1728 pitcher-souleda1739 duncey1743 hebete1743 chuckheaded1756 dumb1756 duncely1757 imbecile1766 mutton-headed1768 chuckle-headed1770 jobbernowl1770 dowfarta1774 boobyish1778 wittol1780 staumrel1787 opaquec1789 stoopid1791 mud-headed1793 borné1795 muzzy-headed1798 nog-headed1800 thick-headed1801 gypit1804 duncish1805 lightweight1809 numbskull1814 tup-headed1816 chuckle-pate1820 unintellectuala1821 dense1822 ninnyish1822 dunch1825 fozy1825 potato-headed1826 beef-headed1828 donkeyish1831 blockheadish1833 pinheaded1837 squirrel-minded1837 pumpkin-headed1838 tomfoolish1838 dundering1840 chicken-headed1842 like a bump on a log1842 ninny-minded1849 numbheadeda1852 nincompoopish1852 suet-brained1852 dolly1853 mullet-headed1853 sodden1853 fiddle-headed1854 numb1854 bovine1855 logy1859 crass1861 unsmart1861 off his chump1864 wooden-headed1865 stupe1866 lean-minded1867 duffing1869 cretinous1871 doddering1871 thick-head1873 doddling1874 stupido1879 boneheaded1883 woolly-headed1883 leaden-natured1889 suet-headed1890 sam-sodden1891 dopey1896 turnip-headed1898 bonehead1903 wool-witted1905 peanut-headed1906 peanut-brained1907 dilly1909 torpid-minded1909 retardate1912 nitwitted1917 meat-headed1918 mug1922 cloth-headed1925 loopy1925 nitwit1928 lame-brained1929 dead from the neck up1930 simpy1932 nail-headed1936 square-headed1936 dingbats1937 pinhead1939 dim-witted1940 pea-brained1942 clueless1943 lobotomized1943 retarded1949 pointy-headed1950 clottish1952 like a stunned mullet1953 silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954 out to lunch1955 pin-brained1958 dozy1959 eejity1964 out of one's tiny mind1965 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 twatty1975 twattish1976 blur1977 dof1979 goofus1981 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 numpty1992 cockish1996 1907 W. A. Sunday in Oxford (Iowa) Mirror 11 July 1/4 Anybody who disagrees with us is a beetle-browed, hog-jowled, peanut-brained son of perdition. 1990 J. Bitumen Personal Vendetta (BNC) 21 This joke points the finger at anarchy This joke is peanut-brained presidents. C2. peanut boy n. North American a boy who sells peanuts and other wares. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of nuts nut seller1648 peanut boy1857 chestnut-roaster1909 1857 Porter's Spirit of Times 5 Sept. 12/1 At length the mare reached the quarter pole, where a little pea-nut boy had stationed himself. 1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xxxvi. 333 In the cars,..the peanut-boy..always hands you out a book of murders if you are fond of theology. 1998 Calgary (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 7 July 35 So, now I'm a ‘peanut boy’ and I walk up and down in the stands selling various items from peanuts to skittles. peanut brittle n. originally U.S. a brittle toffee containing roasted peanuts. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > toffee taffy1817 Everton toffee1822 toffeea1825 hardbake1825 stickjaw1827 tom trot1829 tameletjie1838 butterscotch1847 peanut candy1856 caramel1884 treacle toffee1885 Harrogate toffee1890 brittle1892 peanut brittle1892 saltwater taffy1894 brickle1907 spin1913 hokey-pokey1939 1892 Los Angeles Times 2 Oct. 16/2 We are going to introduce a new line of peanut brittle..from which we expect large sales. 1965 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 14 Feb. (1970) 244 Luci came bounding in this morning, to give her daddy a box of peanut brittle for his Valentine. 1992 Canad. Living Aug. 30/1 Out front, shelves hold sacks of peanut clusters, peanut brittle, enough salted peanuts to satisfy busloads of visitors, and bird feed. peanut bum n. U.S. College slang (now historical and rare) (chiefly at Yale University) a celebration by a student society in which the students scramble for a large quantity of peanuts emptied over the floor of the society's hall; cf. bum n.6 2.The entertainment appears to have arisen in the 1860s and been curtailed in the early 1880s. ΚΠ 1871 L. H. Bagg Four Years at Yale i. i. 76 By the time he becomes a Junior or Senior, he hardly thinks of his society at all, save when he..is invited to a play or ‘peanut bum’. 1876 Yale Literary Mag. Nov. 101 Δ. Κ. had its annual peanut bum on Saturday evening. 1880 Columbia Spectator (Columbia Univ, N.Y.) 20 Apr. 68/2 The freshmen have had a reckless and exciting ‘peanut bum’. 2002 A. Robbins Secrets of Tomb ii. 55 On some occasions or at the end of literary activities, the society would hold a ‘peanut bum’. peanut candy n. U.S. candy containing whole roasted peanuts; a piece of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > toffee taffy1817 Everton toffee1822 toffeea1825 hardbake1825 stickjaw1827 tom trot1829 tameletjie1838 butterscotch1847 peanut candy1856 caramel1884 treacle toffee1885 Harrogate toffee1890 brittle1892 peanut brittle1892 saltwater taffy1894 brickle1907 spin1913 hokey-pokey1939 1856 H. B. Stowe Dred I. iv. 51 Dancing, flirting, writing love-letters, and all other enormities down to eating pea-nut candy. 1901 B. Matthews Notes on Speech-making 53 Some postprandial addresses..resemble the peanut candy where you cannot see the candy for the peanuts. 1998 K. L. Harris & F. N. Pike in E. Sinn Last Half Cent. of Chinese Overseas ii. viii. 123 Throughout Europe, the Zhejiang Chinese, too, were hit severely by the Great Depression. In the Netherlands, many of them turned to selling peanut candy as well. peanut gallery n. colloquial (freq. depreciative) the top gallery in a theatre or cinema, usually the location of the cheapest seats and hence regarded as the most vocal or rowdy section of the audience; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > gallery gallery1690 sky-parlour1747 amphitheatre1859 paradise1864 peanut gallery1876 nigger heaven1878 1876 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 10 June 2/1 As a bid for applause from the political pit and peanut gallery it was a masterpiece. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 2476/2 The syrinx was used by the Romans as a noisy improvement on hissing... The occupants of our peanut galleries, however, use it indiscriminately for praise or blame. 1945 New Yorker 5 May 15/1 We were sitting in the peanut gallery of the Opera House. 1988 R. Caron Jojo i. 7 Chip..had plenty of encouragement from his private ‘peanut gallery’ of retired oldsters who sat day after day on a flat bench in front of the garage. 2003 Sacramento Bee (Nexis) 25 Dec. h1 Along comes another blast from the peanut gallery about the men being interview subjects. peanut girl n. North American a girl who sells peanuts and other wares. ΚΠ 1842 ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes II. 68 I once knocked down a little peanut girl. 1869 E. C. Steadman Blameless Prince 121 A newsboy and a peanut-girl Like little Fauns began to caper. 1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 12 June 1 a Peanut men in bow ties, peanut girls in lipstick, red skirts and dark, curly hair. peanut-parcher n. U.S. slang = peanut roaster n. (b). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > puffing or hissing peanut roaster1872 peanut-parcher1913 1913 Atlanta Constit. 18 Oct. 6/5 This afternoon a peanut parcher—canopied wagon type—exploded on Broad street while a busy crowd was on the sidewalk near it. 1929 W. Faulkner Sartoris iii. viii. 261 ‘Narcissa'll take you..in her car.’.. ‘In that little peanut-parcher?’ 1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 228 The diminutive locomotive and its shrill peanut-parcher whistle. peanut politician n. U.S. colloquial a practitioner of peanut politics. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > politician > [noun] > small-minded or parochial folk-mooter1645 peanut politician1888 parish pumper1905 1888 N.Y. Times 18 Mar. 10/5 The business men of the country, who are the greatest sufferers from the peanut politicians' ways, must arise and assert themselves. 1931 W. G. McAdoo Crowded Years xii. 191 Any Democratic Cabinet, if not actually deficient mentally, consists of adolescents and small peanut politicians. 2002 Omaha (Nebraska) World Herald (Nexis) 17 Feb. 11 b That kind of language neither added to nor detracted from Lay's reputation but made a U.S. senator sound like a peanut politician. peanut politics n. U.S. colloquial petty politics, political action inspired by mean or narrow motives; (formerly also) politics carried out in an underhand or secretive way. ΚΠ 1887 N.Y. Times 23 Apr. 1/7 Peanut politics, a dunderhead of a presiding officer, and a three-pound mallet bone made this one of the most memorable days in the history of the Senate. 1943 Sun (Baltimore) 4 June 12/3 Peanut politics..is not part of my make-up. My only interest shall be, as it has always been in the past, in the people of my district and the public generally. 1997 Honolulu Star-Bull. (Electronic ed.) 9 Jan. Too often, in our Legislature in particular, we focus on peanut politics rather than being visionary and community-minded. peanut roaster n. (a) a machine in which peanuts are roasted; (b) U.S. slang, a vehicle, piece of machinery, etc., that puffs or hisses. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun] reeler1598 driver1659 rubber1747 heading machine1795 bruiser1809 finisher1835 stripper1835 physionotype1836 rotary1836 tetraspaston1842 netting-machine1846 speeder1847 dresser1855 spacer1857 starcher1862 bronzing liquid, machine1865 finishing machine1869 grader1869 brain machine1872 peanut roaster1872 bending machine1874 screw-machine1876 tire-upsetting-machine1877 buncher?1881 flax-breaker1889 oscillator1889 fluoroscope1893 fluorometer1897 mucker1916 spray dryer1921 paver1926 teabagger1940 burster1950 icemaker1953 laminator1958 slipform (concrete) paver1958 extruder1959 Zamboni1965 manipulator1968 wave machine1968 pipelayer1969 walking machine1971 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > puffing or hissing peanut roaster1872 peanut-parcher1913 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > cookers for nuts or corn popper1862 peanut roaster1872 chestnut-roaster1909 1872 Portsmouth (Ohio) Times 7 Sept. His constituency, if they elect him, should provide him with a peanut roaster and a bound copy of Jack, the Giant Killer, by way of a diploma. 1891 in M. Fielder Railroads of Black Hills (1964) 125 ‘Betsey’, engine No. 1, has been designated as ‘peanut roaster’, ‘dinkey’, and ‘wheelbarrow’. 1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 116 Peanut roaster, an intake manifold with a leak. 1999 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 17 Jan. c18 [He] bought a peanut roaster and offered salted and chocolate-coated nuts as a specialty. peanut stand n. chiefly North American a booth, stall, or stand where peanuts, etc., are sold; frequently as the type of a small-scale business enterprise. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > for sale of food or drink shamblec1305 flesh-stall14.. fisher-stall1572 fish-stall1818 whelk-stall1842 coffee stall1850 poultry stall1852 peanut stand1853 raw bar1914 doggery1930 pannam1972 1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 13 Aug. 3/4 A desperate rush; peanut stands and peanuts scattered to the winds; four genteel young men..seek refuge behind as many lamp posts. 1862 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 8 Feb. (1917) I. iii. 67 He hasn't business talent enough to carry on a peanut stand. 1947 Time 27 Jan. 58/2 He was always dabbling shrewdly in dry cleaning stores and peanut stands. 2003 Fort Pierce (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 27 Oct. b6 [He] operated the peanut stand for many years at the old Tote-A-Poke Grocery on Okeechobee Road. peanut valve n. Electronics a type of small thermionic triode valve requiring a low current and having a relatively long life. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > vacuum tube or thermionic valve vacuum tube1859 trigger tube1894 audion1906 pliotron1915 diode1919 electron tube1919 negatron1919 pentode1919 power valve1919 tetrode1919 triode valve1919 magnetron1921 bright emitter1923 peanut valve1923 peanut1924 power tube1924 multiple valve1929 thyratron1929 heptode1932 hexode1933 pentagrid1933 acorn tube1934 octode1934 triode-pentode1936 triode-hexode1937 transitron1939 trochotron1947 steering diode1957 1923 G. Parr Princ. & Pract. Wireless Transmission viii. 119 A valve which has proved very popular in America both on account of its size and low current consumption is that known as the Polar ‘Pea-nut’ valve. The bulb is tubular, its dimensions being 2 in. long by ½ in. diameter, and is fitted with a bayonet cap similar to the ordinary incandescent bulb. 1930 B.B.C. Year-bk. 1931 448/2 Peanut Valve, a type of three-electrode receiving valve requiring low filament current and anode voltage. peanut worm n. = sipunculan n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Sipunculoidea > [noun] > member of peanut worm1939 sipunculan1968 1939 Amer. Midland Naturalist 21 36 The peanut worm Physcosoma agassizi, with it[s] dendritic spread of tentacles, is able to use plankton. 1951 J. Steinbeck & E. F. Ricketts Log from ‘Sea of Cortez’ x. 77 The reef was gradually exposed... Rock oysters there were, and oysters; limpets and sponges; corals of two types; peanut worms; [etc.]. 1998 S. C. Morris Crucible of Creation vii. 169 A few phyla, notably the chaetognaths (arrow worms) and sipunculans (peanut worms), show a remarkable invariance of form. One peanut worm looks very much like another. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1794 |
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